My Budz has been over-bred, and as a result, has a misshapen left foot.
That does not hamper him, however. He was hand fed and was very friendly
from the start. His first duty is life is to talk----he imitates most all
of what I say to him, and so he has a nice vocabulary.

Since I am essentially an "empty nester", so when both girls were gone, he
got babied a lot with varieties of food, clean cage, and doted on in any
other way I can. Although I cannot pet him, he is used to my kissing him on
his body. He just lost his roomie, another budgie one year younger than
himself, recently. It was a mistake to put two males in the cage. They got
very competitive for food and attention, but mostly food.

Budee is a very sweet, friendly bird, and I hope he lives a long life. His
roomie was such a great flier and I enjoyed his athletic acrobatics, I think
my Buz is a STAR!